Life Questions

And life will ask, what have you made of me?

I will show my art, my children, the state of my soul.

And life will ask, how have you spent me?

I will account for the days of nothingness and those

of greatness,

and life will smile at my interpretation of nothingness

and greatness.

Life will say, how have you loved me?

And there will be measures of hatred amongst my love,

too many,

for it is often too simple to love.

Then, life will stretch out its wings and say, how have you

shared me? Gifted me?

It will seem I shared a single black tear

from the wealth of the watermelon.

Each moment life says

take this, and this, and this.